Running an ftp server in Minix under VMware

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1. If the virtual network adapters get set up ok you should be able to
   use ftp to transfer files between the host pc and the minix vmware
   client.

a. I don't have an ftp server running on my host machine and don't
particularly won't to set one up. 
b. You can temporarily run an ftp server on Minix and then from the
host machine transfer files with get to the host from minx or with put
from the host to minix.
c. To run the ftp server temporarily on Minix, 
   c1. log in as root
   c2. run this command

       # tcpd ftp /usr/bin/in.ftpd  &
       #

       This will run the ftp daemon in the background and give you
       back the shell prompt.
   c3. Type ifconfig to find out the ip address of the Minix virtual
       machine.
d. From the host pc, run ftp with the Minix virtual machine's ip
       address e. You can then go back and kill the tcpd process at
       any time or simply shutdown the minix machine.


2. Alternatively, if you have trouble with the virtual network
   adapters in Minix, the documents page has the same two prebuilt
   Minix virtual machines for use with VMware except that I've added
   the vmw utility. This utility lets you copy files in minix to the
   host pc's clipboard or copy from the host's clipboard into minix.
    
    Here is the man page for vmw:



VMW(1)                    Minix Programmer's Manual
VMW(1)


NAME
     vmw - copy to VMware host clipboard or paste from VMware host
     clipboard

SYNOPSIS
     vmw copy [file]
         ----  ----
     vmw paste
         -----

EXAMPLES

     vmw copy            # Input lines copied to host clipboard until
     ctrl-d

     vmw copy prog.c     # Minx file prog.c copied to host clipboard

     vmw copyinput.txt # Clipboard copied to Minix file input.txt

     ls | vmw copy       # Copies a listing of current Minix directory
     to host
                         clipboard

DESCRIPTION

     Vmw copy reads from standard input and copies to the host
     clipboard.

     Vmw paste reads from the host clipboard and copies to standard
     output.

NOTE

     Only text files can be used with vmw.
     To copy binary files from Minix, first encode the file as ASCII
     text file
     using uue.

     If the host clipboard contains an encoded binary file,  first
     paste  it.
     Then use uud to decode it.

SEE ALSO
     uue(1),uud(1).

AUTHOR

     Vmw was written by Ken Kato and ported to Minix by  Kenichi
     Takahagi  to
     provide  some  of  the  functionality  of  VMWare Tools in VMware
     Player.
     VMWare  Tools  allows  copy/paste  between  host  and  guest  and
     other
     operations.    However,  VMware  Tools  was  only  available  for
     VMware
     Workstation, VMware Server, and other VMware  prodcuts,  but  not
     VMware
     Player.






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3. Finally, since you have already added code and modified your minix
   virtual machine, you probably don't want option 2 since that would
   mean starting over with a new virtual Minix machine. So you could
   keep the virtual machine you have modified and do the following:

a. Download the vmw.zip file from the class web site (Documents page).
b. Unzip the vmw.zip in some directory on your host pc to unpack the
vmw executable. (It won't run on the pc).
c. Using ftp on the host pc transfer this file to the Minix virtual
machine. Make sure you set the transfer
   mode to binary first.

   Example. Assume that you used ifconfig in Minix and found the ip
   address of the Minix virtual machine to be xxx.xxx.x.xxx

   On the host pc

   c:/somedirectory> ftp xxx.xxx.x.xxx
   Name: root
   Password: xxxxx
   ftp> 
   ftp> cd /usr/local/bin
   ftp> put vmw
   ftp> bye


    
d. I put the vmw file in the /usr/local/bin/  directory. This
directory is already in users' path.

Then you can use the vmw command to copy files without having to have
the ftp daemon running.